Our adventure to Kibbutz Lotan

After putting the note to the Fedex people to give my mom her new ATM card and buying Jonah and me a snack of pita and humous for the road, we set off to Kibbutz Lotan. There were so many great things to see. The swirling of the scenes and the car made me feel really drowsy. I slept for an hour and, when I woke up, we were halfway to Mitzpeh Ramon.

Mitzpeh Ramon is a small city on the edge of a huge desert crater. When we got there, we hiked up a little part of the crater and went to catch toads that were about half an inch long and a quarter inch wide. At the same park we saw real ibex and tiptoed trying to get as close as we could to them. Then we drove to a hike that led us to an Ammonite Wall where there were fossils you could find on the ground. I found a shell fossil and I found Jonah a shell, too. The wall had really big fossilized shells stuck to it that were each about as big as two people's heads.

Then we started looking for a hotel to sleep in that night. We saw a lot of soldiers with real machine guns and we heard a lot of fighter planes. We stopped at the Field School hotel but didn't stay. Then we looked at a great hotel that served a breakfast in the morning and a dinner at night. We had a great time at dinner. Some musicians came, and Jonah and Dan and I started dancing. Dan and I started getting so wild that we accidentally bumped into a waitress. Luckily, she didn't spill anything. When we woke up we were treated to the best breakfast I had in my whole life. There were about 1000 things to choose from. There was even fresh honey from a comb, and you could pick the honey off the comb. That's when I learned about nana tea, too. All you have to do is put some steaming water, mint (nana in Hebrew), and about 2 whole teaspoons of sugar in a cup. You mix it up together and you have nana tea--mint tea, in English.

An exciting day had begun. From breakfast, we went to the llama/alpaca farm. Jonah and I got to ride a real alpaca--Dalai the llama--and then made a project with alpaca yarn. From there, we drove to the Kibbutz.